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Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June
14, 1997) was an United States|American actor. 

Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short,
but tough guy, he played a variety of characters
in his 50 years in movies and television and
became one of Hollywood's best known character
actors. Jaeckel got his start in the business at
the age of 17 while working as a mailboy at 20th
Century Fox studios in Hollywood. A casting
director audtioned him for a key role in the 1943
film Guadalcanal Diary, Jaeckel won the role and
settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts.
He served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1949, then
starred in two of the most remembered war films of
1949, Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John
Wayne. Jaeckel's other films include The
Gunfighter, Come Back, Little Sheba (movie)|Come
Back, Little Sheba, 3:10 to Yuma, Town Without
Pity, The Dirty Dozen, Chisum Pat Garrett and
Billy the Kid, Grizzly (film)|Grizzly, Twilight's
Last Gleaming, The Dark Cold River, Starman
(film)|Starman, Black Moon Rising and The Delta
Force 2.

The highlight of Jaeckel's career was in 1971,
when he received an Academy Award nomination for
Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sometimes a
Great Notion. In his later years, Jaeckel was
known to TV audiences as Lt. Ben Edwards on the
series Baywatch. Jaeckel died in 1997 after a
three year battle with melanoma cancer at the
Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland
Hills, California.